Inspirational Quotes
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Stephen King on Writing
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.”
- Stephen King
Anais Nin on Courage
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
- Anais Nin
Michael Jordan on Failure and Perseverance
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
- Michael Jordan
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Focus
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Theodore Roosevelt on Critics, Perseverance and Courage
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
Will Smith on Diligence and Persistence
“You don‘t try to build a wall. You don‘t set out to build a wall. You don‘t say ‘I‘m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that‘s ever been built.‘ You don‘t start there. You say I‘m gonna lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid, and you do that every single day, and soon you have a wall.”
- Will Smith
Jim Rohn on Self-Discipline
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
- Jim Rohn
Albert Schweitzer on Compassion
“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
- Albert Schweitzer
Woodrow Wilson on Service
“We are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich-the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand.”
- Woodrow Wilson
Patanjali on Purpose
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
- Patanjali
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